*** Official ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe (nForce4) Thread ***

[steamnputer]

This is my first post, here but I have been reading and this is the the best source for trouble shooting on a8n on the web. I have managed to get everything running with few problems have had a couple minor problems. (this was my first ground up build with all new componets glad I read this thread) My problem at the moment is that I am trying to update the BIOS to 1004 and I am trying to use the ASUS update utlity via XP(pro) I have tryed to scan the forum to see if anyone else has the same problem can't get it to work wondering if I am only one have this problem?:disgust:

 

[lotus503]

Originally posted by: steamnputer
This is my first post, here but I have been reading and this is the the best source for trouble shooting on a8n on the web. I have managed to get everything running with few problems have had a couple minor problems. (this was my first ground up build with all new componets glad I read this thread) My problem at the moment is that I am trying to update the BIOS to 1004 and I am trying to use the ASUS update utlity via XP(pro) I have tryed to scan the forum to see if anyone else has the same problem can't get it to work wondering if I am only one have this problem?:disgust:

You need to connect to the .de German FTP, all the others give me a no file found error

Also for some odd reason I needed to choose a passive connection

 

[countingdown7]

I have a OCZ Modstream 520 psu, yes I have it hooked to the power
first thing I did. The card is definately in properly. Sure, it's the first pci-e
card I've ever had, but I've reseated it more times than I care to think
about. And what pins are you talking about?molex? They're good as far
as I know. I had some success getting into the bios. Again, no dice.
Although once it showed my slave as having more gb (as if it added
the master to the slave). I actually hooked the master back to my old
comp, worked instantly. Why are mobo's getting worse anyways?
Shouldn't they be getting better? Any other ideas guys?
PS, it is a 40 gig maxtor hdd(the master). Does a8n dislike smaller
hdds?

 

[steamnputer]

Is that a permanet thing for the german website or is this just something temp?

seems that I can't get any of the others to come even manually but i did get 1004 about 2 days ago but the 3.5 i put it on went south and never copied it to a the harddrive on my laptop.

 

[kki000]

Originally posted by: dworley
kki000 - You are not alone as I have this same issue.

If I leave the computer on for an extended period time and the monitor goes into standby or powers off. After the monitor "wakes up" whenever I launch any 3D games, like CS:Souce it just hangs. requireing a reboot. Never have any problems unless the copmputer is left idling for extended periods of time.

I have tried numerous drivers with no change, this is mostly just an annoyance for me since I typically shut off the SLI rig off when not in use.

Thnx, thats exactly whats happening to me. Im surprised more ppl havent raised a stink about this, guess theres bigger fish 2 fry with this board.

I was going to up the power supply again to try to solve this.
Went from a 550 dual rail 18amp to a 550 single 34amp trying to make this go away!
Guess u cant blame everything on the psu.

K

 

[SPtheALIEN]

Are you using the ASUS drivers or are you using the drivers that you download from nVidia's website? When I use the nVidia nForce4 standalone, I no longer have working audio on the digital ports (I haven't tested the analog). Which did you install?

Thanks.

 

[Framelord]

This is from onother forum:
Quote:
Originally Posted by ajmiles
Major Slaughter: You've managed to get past 250mhz at 1T? As far as I knew getting past 250mhz at 1T was an impossibility with the Asus A8N SLI Deluxe with a memory divider?

With most of the recent BIOSes unless you specify DDR400 (1:1) in the BIOS it will automatically revert to DDR333 I believe above 217mhz. What bandwidths are you getting on Sandra, and does A64 Tweakers definitely say 2T is disabled?



I'm using 1005.005 which works fine

Running at 1t 282mhz 2.5 3 3 7 1:1 4x ht @ 9x

Sandra had me at around 7,800

I've got the DFI Nf4 sli DR now so don't have the Asus running right now, will be up and running the DFI this Saturday
__________________
GLAD TO BE BACK AT XTREME !
(DFI NF4 SLI DR & G.Skill 1gb LE on the way)
Asus A8N SLI Delux
3500+ .09 @ 2540 1.55v XP120
G.Skill 2x256 LE @ 282 2.5-3-3-7-1T 2.8v
2 x 6800 GT SLI
2 x 74g Raptors Raid 0
Audigy 2 ZS

NOw this is cool 1T 282Mhz!!!!!

 

[Whitewolf]

Framelord the issue with the 250+ 1:1 appears when you want to run 1GB (2*512MB) with 1T. It will not appear if you are running 1GB (2*512MB) with 2T OR 512MB (2*256MB) with 1T. You have the latter setup and that's why you can get 282 1:1 1T.

 

[jose]

Just received a DOA a8n-sli from ZZF.. The cpu is fine tested in another system.. The speach reporter won't do anything with only a cpu installed..

To top that off I won't be able to get a replacement for about 10 days, also no-refund... We'll I guess we'll see what my cc company has to say..

BTW The board I received was a rev 1.02, is this what's currently available ??

Regards,
Jose

 

[ajmiles]

Originally posted by: Whitewolf
Framelord the issue with the 250+ 1:1 appears when you want to run 1GB (2*512MB) with 1T. It will not appear if you are running 1GB (2*512MB) with 2T OR 512MB (2*256MB) with 1T. You have the latter setup and that's why you can get 282 1:1 1T.

Whitewolf: He is quoting a thread from the Xtemesystems.org forums. It was Major Slaughter that got 282mhz rather than Framelord himself. I was the one that replied to Major Slaughter clarifying that he was infact at 1T. I will try overclocking with just 1 x 512MB RAM today to see how it goes. Not that I'll stick with 512mb (obviously not in dual channel).

 

[tmchow]

Originally posted by: tmchow
My HTPC running MCE 2005 (essentially just WinXP Pro) that I built around my Asus A8N-SLI is getting the infamous "Blue screen of death" when I return from S3 Standby. The exact stop message i get is "MACHINE_CHECK_EXCEPTION".

When I return from suspend, I actually see windows UI, networking gets restored, but after about 3-4 seconds, I crash.

I looked up this stop message online and it indicates that it's likely a hardware problem. I did a bunch of diagnostics of my machine and thought it might be my ram. Everythign checked out fine.

I pulled my TV tuner card, an Evga dual tuner, and that was causing the problem. When the card isn't installed, I can awake from suspend without any trouble. As soon as the card is in, I crash.

Other people are using this tuner card in their HTPC and the company only has one version of their driver out (and I have that one installed). I can't help but think it's either a power problem (insufficient power?) or just an incompatibility between teh card and my system somehow.

Here are my specs:

Motherboard: Asus A8N-SLI
RAM: 1GB PQI PC3200 Dual Channel
CPU: AMD 3500+ Winchester
PS: Seasonic Super Tornado 400W
HD: Seagate 400GB UltraATA
DVDRW: NEC 3500a
Video: Evga (Nvidia) 6600GT PCI-Express

I can't imagine it's a power supply problem (insufficient power) as this is a pretty high quality power supply and my components shouldn't be drawing anywhere near the max power that it's capable of.

Anyone have any ideas?

I discovered that the problem is an incompatility between the Evga TV tuner and the Asus A8N-SLI. Looks like the Asus doesn't like this card and I have confirmed this with another user (cdcushman) who had the exact same problem (blue screen with stop message of "MACHINE_CHECK_EXCEPTION").

He mentioned he changed some bios settings and it made the problem go away, but he can't remember which settings they were. Anyone have any idea of which settings I woudl tweak to solve this compat problem with this PCI TV tuner?

 

[Nenno]

Hi everyone
I upgraded bios on my a8n-sli from 1.02 to 1.03( everything went ok), and on start, power on test, system calls System failed VGA test, obviously, it doesnt recognize my grafic card(Radeon x700)..is that a common problem, and what can i do? Take Nvidia card and restore old BIOS or? Please help me with some advices...
Thanks, Neno

 

[mwarner]

@tmchow

You may find it's the TV Tuner driver writing to memory that it hasn't allocated, which is picked up by DEP. You may wish to turn off DEP by editing your boot.ini file in the root of c:.

/NoExecute=OptIn - enables DEP for Windows system files (default, and includes drivers)

/NoExecute=OptOut - enables systemwide DEP

/NoExecute=AlwaysOn - enables systemwide DEP without pssibility of individual application exclusion

/NoExecute=AlwaysOff - disables DEP completely.

Try the last one to see if it solves your problem. Obviously it isn't ideal to turn DEP off as it catches rogue software, but it can cause a BSOD if hardware drivers are badly written.

@Nenno

Try clearing the CMOS with the jumper on the motherboard. Turn the power off, flip the jumper and leave for 5 seconds. Change it back and power on again.

 

[ajmiles]

My New Anandtech Thread!

Sounds good .

ajmiles

 

[runestone]

Thanks aj, sounds good.

 

[tmchow]

Originally posted by: mwarner
@tmchow

You may find it's the TV Tuner driver writing to memory that it hasn't allocated, which is picked up by DEP. You may wish to turn off DEP by editing your boot.ini file in the root of c:.

/NoExecute=OptIn - enables DEP for Windows system files (default, and includes drivers)

/NoExecute=OptOut - enables systemwide DEP

/NoExecute=AlwaysOn - enables systemwide DEP without pssibility of individual application exclusion

/NoExecute=AlwaysOff - disables DEP completely.

Try the last one to see if it solves your problem. Obviously it isn't ideal to turn DEP off as it catches rogue software, but it can cause a BSOD if hardware drivers are badly written.

thanks for the tip, i will try it out. But out of curiosity, other people have this tv tuner card working in their machines going in and out of standby. It seems to be just a problem with Asus A8N motherboards and this tuner card. If it was a badly written driver, wouldn't this affect any mobo, not jsut Asus A8N's?

 

[mwarner]

@tmchow

> If it was a badly written driver, wouldn't this affect any mobo, not jsut Asus A8N's?

If it is a problem with No Execute causing a BSOD due to an incorrectly written driver, then it should appear on any machine with a NX-capable processor - i.e. AMD64 or recent P4 - and using an OS with NX awareness - e.g. Windows XP SP2 (not SP1 or earlier).

 

[Dream Operator]

HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Massive amounts of BSOD!

Happens with so many apps.

During opending Nuendo, During the first screen of Roller Coaster Tycoon 3. Happened while trying to search in windows. Happened when I opened the Game Controllers profile. Happened while in ZSNES, not even playing, just in the menu.

Using the 1004 final bios.
Running 6.39 drivers for the board. Except the ethernet I left that with whatever came one the included cd. Not using the nforce networking or nvidia firewall. Using windows firewall. Avast antivirus 4.6.

The BSOD error isn't a driver IRQ. Here is the Technical Information from the error.

Stop: 0x0000008e (0xc0000005, 0x80543c1d, 0xf6f3fb60, 0x00000000

Mean anything to anybody? I am in deperate need of a resolution as I use this pc for business and have clients coming TOMORROW!

As always, any information is greatly appreciated.

 

[tmchow]

Originally posted by: Dream Operator
HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Massive amounts of BSOD!

Happens with so many apps.

During opending Nuendo, During the first screen of Roller Coaster Tycoon 3. Happened while trying to search in windows. Happened when I opened the Game Controllers profile. Happened while in ZSNES, not even playing, just in the menu.

Using the 1004 final bios.
Running 6.39 drivers for the board. Except the ethernet I left that with whatever came one the included cd. Not using the nforce networking or nvidia firewall. Using windows firewall. Avast antivirus 4.6.

The BSOD error isn't a driver IRQ. Here is the Technical Information from the error.

Stop: 0x0000008e (0xc0000005, 0x80543c1d, 0xf6f3fb60, 0x00000000

Mean anything to anybody? I am in deperate need of a resolution as I use this pc for business and have clients coming TOMORROW!

As always, any information is greatly appreciated.

Tell us your configuration (what other components are in the system) adn what is the exact "stop message" you are getting?

 

[cronic]

WELL AFTER HOURS OF PULLIN MY HAIR OUT WITH THE SLI-DR I HAVE COME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT MY BOARD IS VERY, VERY DEFECTIVE. THE BIOS WOULD NEVER SAVE ANY SAVINGS THAT I SET AFTER SAVING AND REBOOTING.I TRIED ALL THE BETA BIOS WITH NO SUCESS. SAME ISSUES. I REINSTALLED THE ASUS A8N-SLI AND IT IS WORKING PERFECT WITH THE SAME CONFIGURATION. OH WELL THE ASUS MAY NOT OVERCLOCK GREAT AT THE MOMENT BUT AT LEAST IT WORKS!!!!!!

CONGRATULATIONS TO ASUS FOR RELEASING A PRODUCT THAT IS ROCK SOLID!!!!
HOPEFULLY THE OVERCLOCKING WILL IMPROVE WITH NEW BIOS. MY FINGERS ARE CROSSED.

 

[Dream Operator]

Originally posted by: tmchow

Originally posted by: Dream Operator
HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Massive amounts of BSOD!

Happens with so many apps.

During opending Nuendo, During the first screen of Roller Coaster Tycoon 3. Happened while trying to search in windows. Happened when I opened the Game Controllers profile. Happened while in ZSNES, not even playing, just in the menu.

Using the 1004 final bios.
Running 6.39 drivers for the board. Except the ethernet I left that with whatever came one the included cd. Not using the nforce networking or nvidia firewall. Using windows firewall. Avast antivirus 4.6.

The BSOD error isn't a driver IRQ. Here is the Technical Information from the error.

Stop: 0x0000008e (0xc0000005, 0x80543c1d, 0xf6f3fb60, 0x00000000

Mean anything to anybody? I am in deperate need of a resolution as I use this pc for business and have clients coming TOMORROW!

As always, any information is greatly appreciated.

Tell us your configuration (what other components are in the system) adn what is the exact "stop message" you are getting?

Also have M-Audio Delta 66 and M-Audio Audiophile 24/96 installed. Been using them for years. Drivers have been around for awhile. I have a Joybox 11 adapter connected with one Xbox controller using psxpad drivers. Nothing new there either. NVLan enabled, Marvell Lan disabled. Silicon Raid disabled. SATA HD is on Nvidia port 1. I just got my 6600gt back from RMA (new not repaired). Running XG 71.90 drivers. I'm going to try the official Nvidia driver now.

Also flashed to 1005-05, no change yet.

 

[Dream Operator]

Ok, tried the 66.93 for my 6600gt, same issue.

TMCHOW - not sure what info you want on the stop message. The info I provided was all that I saw, aside from the suggestions of HD space, bios etc.

Also get a BSOD Registry error when trying to use driver cleaner pro. Ran regclean, still same issue.

 

[iscsidude]

Originally posted by: cronic
WELL AFTER HOURS OF PULLIN MY HAIR OUT WITH THE SLI-DR I HAVE COME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT MY BOARD IS VERY, VERY DEFECTIVE. THE BIOS WOULD NEVER SAVE ANY SAVINGS THAT I SET AFTER SAVING AND REBOOTING.I TRIED ALL THE BETA BIOS WITH NO SUCESS. SAME ISSUES. I REINSTALLED THE ASUS A8N-SLI AND IT IS WORKING PERFECT WITH THE SAME CONFIGURATION. OH WELL THE ASUS MAY NOT OVERCLOCK GREAT AT THE MOMENT BUT AT LEAST IT WORKS!!!!!!

CONGRATULATIONS TO ASUS FOR RELEASING A PRODUCT THAT IS ROCK SOLID!!!!
HOPEFULLY THE OVERCLOCKING WILL IMPROVE WITH NEW BIOS. MY FINGERS ARE CROSSED.

Welcome back Cronic. Sorry to hear about the DFI difficulties. I've been reading yours, and other posts, over on the SLI-DR site. This SLI stuff is obviously not for the squeamish. While my system runs rock solid (Single 6800 Ultra) I'm awaiting the new BIOS before overclocking or SLI become part of my life. See the above link "AJMILES" with a note received from Anandtech.

After the Anandtech SLI roundup review, I was thinking about the DFI but based on the problems, I'll stick with the ASUS for the near term.

 

[cronic]

have you tried the system without the m audio cards installed? i understand you want to use them, but just wondering if it is stable without them?

 

[Dream Operator]

pulled the m audio cards. no change. same hang ups.

voltage? i have found my ram to be most stable at 2.85v. cpu at 1.4, tried 1.45 as well, nothing different.